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Title: Ugandan outing of homosexuals 'chilling': activists
Post by: LostInTime on September 09, 2006, 06:53:51 AM
Post by: LostInTime on September 09, 2006, 06:53:51 AM
Articles (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/08092006/3/world-ugandan-outing-homosexuals-chilling-activists.html)
The decision by a Ugandan newspaper to publish the names and locations of alleged homosexuals could lead to a government crackdown against them, a human rights group warns.
Human Rights Watch issued a release Friday, calling that development "chilling" and urging strong action in a country which the group charges has long been a place where lesbians and gays have been stigmatized and harassed by officials. "For years, President Yoweri Museveni’s government routinely threatens and vilifies lesbians and gays, and subjects sexual-rights activists to harassment," said Jessica Stern, researcher in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Program of Human Rights Watch.
The decision by a Ugandan newspaper to publish the names and locations of alleged homosexuals could lead to a government crackdown against them, a human rights group warns.
Human Rights Watch issued a release Friday, calling that development "chilling" and urging strong action in a country which the group charges has long been a place where lesbians and gays have been stigmatized and harassed by officials. "For years, President Yoweri Museveni’s government routinely threatens and vilifies lesbians and gays, and subjects sexual-rights activists to harassment," said Jessica Stern, researcher in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Program of Human Rights Watch.